To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

Don't get me wrong I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own including a trendy mountain style and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then all of a sudden my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

I'm not Candide nor Dr Pangloss but we know that faith moves mountains.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Patience and Diligence like faith remove mountains.